I join with you, dearest sister in Christ, in identifying myself as "born again." The person I once was is dead.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. - Colossians 3:3 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:20
Should anyone use the term "born again" as a pejorative in speaking of me, I will count it all joy! Indeed, I've been called many things in an apparent attempt to insult and I count them all joy. I've been called Satanic, demonic, Jesus freak or just plain freak, worthless, mindless, stupid, superstitious, pawn, blind, gnostic, heretic, etc.
Blessed are ye, when [men] shall revile you, and persecute [you], and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. - Matthew 5:11-12
Praise God!!!